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Genre: Sci-Fi Fantasy Director: Fred M. Wilcox Starring Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Robby the Robot After contact with the colonists of distant planet Altair 4 is lost, a spaceship captained by...

In the long line of films made exclusively because technological advancements allow it to be made, here comes Eagle Eye. This thriller, executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, just doesn’t seem to take movie watchers...

This movie is a thinly disguised biography of the Supremes, Motown’s premier “girl group” of the 70’s and 80’s. With a star-studded cast, including Jamie Foxx and Beyoncé Knowles, it is the story of a trio of women with...

Remember how Alex the lion, Melman the giraffe, Marty the zebra, and Gloria the hippo got on to that ship to head home to the New York Zoo, Well, they don’t actually get home! ‘Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa’ takes up the...

Genre: Horror Director: James Whale Starring Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson Following on directly from 1931’s Frankenstein, We discover Doctor Henry Frankenstein and his creation were not killed. With...

Genre: Sci-fi Fantasy Director: Stanley Kubrick Starring Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden Insane Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper issues the go code to his bomber wing through fear of an...

This film remake of a fable by John Boyne is all about dealing with difficult and painful circumstances, but the problem is, the movie itself is a difficult and painful experience. This is horror through a child’s eye...

To be very honest I wasn’t expecting anything when I went to watch ‘I’ve Loved You So Long’. After a string of other bad movies, I was in no mood for a directorial debut. But I was so wrong. Philippe Claudel’s...

I recently watched Mike Nichol’s “The Birdcage”, a film that may be one of the funniest of the 1990s. And it occurred to me that there seems to be a dichotomy in films where at least one lead character cross-dresses:...

Genre: War Director: Henry King Starring Cast: Gregory Peck, Dean Jagger At the height of World War II, a US bomber squadron based in England is demoralised having suffered many losses on dangerous raids over Germany...

Brace yourself, sickly sweet tweens are back to rule the roost. Disney’s high school gang returns for the third instalment of their singing/ acting pursuits. Singing basketball player, (sounds hilarious, but it’s...

So many forgettable films have stunning visual effects. What makes them forgettable is that there is nothing else. Amateur filmmakers hide behind visual effects rather than use them. What sets director Robert Zemeckis...

Don’t Mess with the Zohan can definitely be considered an improvement over ‘I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry’. Did I just describe Don’t Mess…. an improvement over anything. Yes, it’s an improvement but barely so...

It’s been three years since one of America’s most controversial presidents has been forced out of his office but Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) hasn’t said a word. Yet. Its 1977 and Nixon agrees to do a series of...

Genre: Drama Director: Mike Nichols Starring Cast: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katherine Ross This iconic movie has numerous famous images and often quoted lines of its script connected with it. Suffice it to say...

The hottest movie this award season is James Cameron’s “Avatar,” which was released in December in time for the holiday film going season. By the end of the year it had grossed almost $600 million and was fast eclipsing...

Genre: Action/Adventure Director: Michael Curtiz & William Keighley Starring Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Basil Rathbone Saxon Sir Robin of Locksley (Flynn) falls foul of the Norman authorities and turns...

“You can’t spell families without lies,” says Brad (Vince Vaughn) in this season’s newest take on the “meet the parents” premise. The movie has been released as ‘Four Holidays’ and ‘Four Christmases’ so don’t get...

As horror movies go, ‘Audrey Rose’ presents an interesting idea. Elliot Hoover, played by Anthony Hopkins, tells Janice and Bill Templeton (played by Marsha Mason and John Beck) that Ivy, their daughter (played by Susan...